EASY RIDERS: ON WORK AND MOBILITY

APHIDS is an artist-led experimental art organisation based in Naarm/Melbourne. Collaborative, risk-taking and future focused, APHIDS is led by Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor.APHIDS makes experimental work across artforms and contexts: in public space, festivals, digital platforms, across visual and performing arts, major institutions and beyond. APHIDS have been presented in every state and territory in Australia, from the Malthouse Theatre to the Art Gallery of SA. We have engaged audiences in samurai hotels in Japan, churches in Finland, community halls in regional towns, drive-ins and even beamed art into outer space.APHIDS includes the triad of Amrita Hepi, Amaara Raheem, and Sammaneh Pourshafighi, through a peer-based approach to art-making, knowledge sharing and cross disciplinary exchange from diverse viewpoints.

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Easy Riders is a major new performance work by artist Eugenia Lim and APHIDS, in collaboration with members of your friendly local network of gig workers. Easy Riders will premiere in late 2020, but you can get a sneak peek at the creative process this December when the Easy Riders team is in-residence at MPavilion, hosting a series of public events designed to get you thinking and moving on the subject of work in the digital age.
Combining dance, synchronised bike-riding and performance, Easy Riders is a collaborative choreography that explores the nature of work and human connection in the digital age. Developed and co-created with workers of the gig economy (independent artists and ‘independent contractors’ for companies such as Uber, Deliveroo and Airtasker), Easy Riders asks: how much of our daily lives should be lived by others? What are the moral and social implications of outsourcing? And who do we become once we’re fully outsourced and at our most ‘efficient’ – Übermenschen or über-assholes? Easy Riders is inspired by the pioneering work of artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her ‘work ballets’. But, unlike Ukeles’ unionised workers, Easy Riders seeks to understand what dignity and collective action looks like for individuals without a social safety net, within our present (and future) tense of atomised existence.
Join artist Eugenia Lim (APHIDS) and leading thinkers and advocates from across the fields of labour and industrial relations, gig workers’ rights and the arts in a panel that explores working in the digital age, and the impact of the gig economy on our relationships, rights, creativity and bodies. Speakers include Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor, School of Business, UTS; artist and performance-maker Roshelle Fong; and former Foodora worker Josh Klooger.
 
All events for Easy Riders: The Prologue are supported by Australia Council for the Arts, City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and APHIDS. For a full list of events, visit: <A HREF="https://mpavilion.org/program/eugenia-lim-aphids-present-easy-riders-the-prologue/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://mpavilion.org/program/eugenia-lim-aphids-present-easy-riders-the-prologue/</A>
Image: still from Eugenia Lim's ON DEMAND (2019)

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